Wednesday, 25 February 2009

The waxing crescent moon with furred nimbusOf a cold milky mouse grave OctoberBlurring into blue dark Mare NectarisEndymion ringed with pearly fogMare Crisium and Mare UndarumOld moon yearning in the new moon's armsEvery loose thread left danglingAt dusk Saturn rises out of the oceanHeavenly waters so tired of waitingAquatic constellations swim into viewAquarius Capricornus PiscesVenus ascends four a.m. with the tideWhite day opening not that far behind itSwallows tossed wide around a calm sky

(Also known as the Moon's "ashen glow" or "the old Moon in the new Moon's arms", Earthshine is Earthlight reflected from the Moon's night side. A description of Earthshine, in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans in turn illuminating the Moon's dark surface, was written 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci.)

4 comments:

I always find whenever I read something, there is one part that seems to bury itself deep within me 'Old moon yearning in the new moon's arms' such does this.As well as the words, I too am loving that picture, you.

BTW I am not educated so I thank you for educating me. I 'Googled' Marat and Charlotte Corday, so now I know! Did you know (when I wrote what I did) I was writing about my Babies? They being my 'Mistress'.

As to education, the best and only real school I think is life itself. I try to say that in this post (the quoted lines are from an earlier comment by an Iranian blogger who calls herself human being, she has a blog called Thus Spake the Crow but is in a hiatus now because of government repression):

Education in the school of life and suffering, obviously that you have had. Wise, adventurous, gifted, sweet, funny--you can't arrange to be any of those things simply by getting a diploma. And you possess those qualities in abundance, my dear. That much I can tell already. I love hearing your words in and out of your posts.

I think "disability" is both under-rated and over-rated. (I've a history of strokes.)